Paul Bernardo : The Scarborough Rapist

My research paper is on Anthony Sowell, a serial killer, identified in press reports as the Cleveland Strangler. My research will examine and explain Anthony Sowell’s life and history prior to his crimes, the crimes and personality theories that apply to his deviant behavior.

In a narrow southwestern Ontario town of Clinton, Canada, where everyone was associated with the Royal Canadian Air Force base, living on or in company with the base - including a young, 14-year-old boy named Steven Murray Truscott, a popular, athletic teenager who inhabited with his parents. His father, Daniel Truscott, was an RCAF warrant officer and his mother, Doris Truscott, who did not have a job, she only dedicated her life after their family of 6. In June 1959 after a fellow classmate, Lynne Harper was discovered dead and raped, Steven Truscott was constructed to be the only suspect exposed by evidence, displaying to be convicted of first-degree murder. He would soon be acquainted as Canada's youngest death-row inmate, sentenced to be hung months after the murder, at age 14. It wasn't only 45 years later until he was finally exonerated of the crime he was not culpable of.

Paul Bernardo was a well liked child by all the parents in the neighbourhood, he was pleasant and friendly.  Although, when he was a sixteen, he got into an argument with his mother and she told him about how he was a illegitimate child and showed him the picture of his real father for whom she had an affair with.  Paul was devastated and after the incident he did not get along with his mother.  He started to hang around a tough crowd of people, had a terrible temper and enjoyed humiliating women publicly. This later led to his abusiveness towards women.

While describing the crimes that Kip Kinkel and Sam Manzie committed, Quindlen leaves out a mass amount of details pertaining to the multiple murders being committed by these two teens. Quindlen was unsuccessful in mentioning how these crimes were committed or how many people were injured in the process of committing these crimes. After further research I discovered the appalling details of the murdering of Kinkel’s parents. Further exploration also revealed that Kinkel injured 25 students on top of killing two students at Thurston High School. As for Manzie’s misconducts, Quindlen failed to mention most of the ghastly details of the murdering of 11- year old, Eddie Werner.

On October 20, 2002, an eight-year-old boy revealed that a man had persuaded him and had taken him away to an old house and tried to sodomize him. The day after, the child’s mother saw a man similar to what the boy had described as his assailant. Exactly when the mother asked in the matter of whether this was the assailant, he responded that it was. Police were requested, and the man, Ricardo Rachell, was arrested.

Richard Kuklinski was an incredibly cold-blooded man. He had at least 100 confirmed kills, and claims to have around 200 total. Richard has a very horrible childhood. Richard liked to torture and kill animals as a little boy. His father abused him and his brothers, one of which was killed from the abuse received from Stanley. Stanley’s brother, Joseph, was pretty messed up, too. He probably would’ve turned out to be a serial killer himself. Kuklinski himself wasn’t like Ramirez or Dahmer, or any other serial killer for that matter. Kuklinski was an evil man, with a ton of interesting information about him out there.

As Crown counsel Howard Leibovich put it, “The fresh evidence points to only one conclusion,” that “Paul Bernardo committed this attack.” (Tyler, The

I chose this case because it is located in Regina, Saskatchewan and it is Regina’s first serial killer case and that it is a shocking news for Regina to hear the news that there was a serial killer in their city that was walking around. The interesting thing is that it took the Regina Police Service three years to be able to catch Clayton Bo Eichler and that was not able to be found in this years. His technique of killing them and getting rid of them without any trace for three years was surprisingly advantageous for him to not to be arrested.

The tragic case of two-year-old Caylee Anthony reveals the devastating consequences that murders can have on victims and their families. Caylee was an innocent toddler that lived with her mother, Casey Anthony and her maternal grandmothers, Cindy and George. On July 15, 2008 a call to 911 was sent in by Caylee’s grandmother Cindy, reporting that she hasn’t seen Caylee in 31 days and that the toddler’s mother’s car smelled like a dead body has been inside it. The toddler’s mother gave varied explanations on where her daughter was located but then admitted she hasn’t seen her in weeks. She told police that she left Caylee at her nanny’s apartment and when she returned, they were both missing. Detectives found discrepancies in a signed statement she made about Caylee’s disappearance. Casey’s friends and family had never heard of Gonzales, and detectives later found the nanny never existed. The apartment Casey and Caylee were supposed to be living with was found to be vacant for more than 140 days. On December 11, 2008, Caylee 's body was found in a blanket inside a trash bag in a wooded area near the child’s home. Investigative reports and trial testimony found duct tape near the front of the skull] and on the mouth of the toddler. In result, Casey Anthony was charged on October 2008 with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and four counts of providing false information to police.

In the residential Tremont neighbourhood of Cleveland, Ohio between the years 2002 – 2004, three girls – Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgia (Gina) DeJesus – were kidnapped. All three girls had accepted a ride home of a man named Ariel Castro, but instead of driving the girls home, he drove them to his own house, where he lured them inside took them to the basement and then restraint them. For the next eleven to nine years he kept the three girls at his house which was located at 2207 Seymour Avenue, Tremont, Cleveland, Ohio, which was approximately three miles away from the site of the abductions.

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka are dubbed as the ‘Ken and Barbie Killers’ because of the crimes they committed as a couple during the 1990s. Paul was 23 and Karla was 17 years old when their relationship began. The two young adults were perfectly normal; with their good looks and charming manners no one suspected these average Canadian citizens to be psychopathic killers.

" On July 29, 1994, seven year old Megan Kanka, from Hamilton Township, New Jersey, was walking home after playing at a friends house. She had almost reached her front door when Jesse Timmendequas, 33, a landscaper who had lived across the street for a year invited her over to pet his new puppy ( Richard 1 )." " When Megan followed him inside, he led her to an upstairs bedroom, strangled her unconscious with his belt, raped her and then asphyxiated her to death with a plastic bag. Timmendequas then placed Megan’s body in a tool box, drove it in his pick-up truck to a near-by soccer field and dumped her body in some bushes ( Jerome 1 )." This, and the tragic murder of Amanda Wengert, was how the name was developed. But in my paper I did not discuss the murder and raping of Amanda Wengert.

This essay will look at how various forms of media examine female and child offenders, and how these same criminals can also be viewed as being victims. The media is able to shape the way the public perceive a certain criminal through aspects such as personal information, history of violence and appearance (Fries, 1820). Therefore, creating the opportunity to generate a media story in which the ideal criminal is involved. Included within the essay will be how the medias fixation with gendered and social norms can cause a female or child offender to be considered as being depraved. Also, this essay will demonstrate how today’s media supports the now discredited theory of criminologist, Cesare Lombroso, that asserted physical attributes

Paul Bernardo was born in Canada and he comes from a family where his father used to beat his mother constantly. Paul’s father was recognized of child molestation on a young girl and his own daughter. This situation affected all the family in an emotional and physical way, but Paul remained indifferent to the situation (Vronsky, 2007, p.332). I think that this event is partly a consequence of what Paul became as he was not affected by his father’s action. Karla accepts and even steals anesthetics from the veterinary clinic where she works (Vronsky, 2004, p.334). On October 1987, Paul and Karla meet for the first time in a restaurant with friends – she was 17 and he was 23. The first night, they slept together and Karla was encouraging his

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka were once seen as the perfect couple. Not only did Homolka’s family think that Bernardo was a very attractive young man, they enjoyed the fact that he was an accountant who was capable of providing for their daughter. Bernardo on the other hand was able to manipulate everyone around him into thinking he was the perfect gentleman. At one point in time he was even able to trick police officers into thinking that there was no possible way of him being the Scarborough rapist. Homolka knew the true side of Paul Bernardo, the side where he lusted over young innocent girls and tried to take advantage of them. Instead of telling people about Bernardo’s unusual and uncomfortable sexual fantasies, Homolka would actually